Category: Hermione Montrose Solo Reviews

I finally feel en vogue in the reading world, as I am reading Crazy Rich Asians just before the film comes out in August (yes, I do want to watch it). I also want to finish the Crazy Rich Asain trilogy, but I might have to put that on hold since I’m about 300 pages…

I don’t read a lot of YA—I never have, really, simply because it doesn’t interest me. My recent foray into the genre has only served to redouble my aversion to “fluffy” romances and “meet-cutes.” (Because these things are never cute. They’re just annoying.) My YA expertise is pretty much limited to the eleven YA books…

{By Hermione Montrose} {Note: This post was originally written in the August of 2017…and I just never got around to publishing it. Procrastination is a problem, okay? I decided to publish it anyway, even though my opinions on Dickens and his female characters and the like have evolved a bit since last August, and so…

In a way, I’m almost glad that you’re dead, and that I’m writing this letter to a woman/author who will never ever read it. This way I can be brutally honest. I really wish I could do nothing but sing your praises for The Bell Jar, and blather on and on about how much I…

How do I even start this? I’ve been carrying around the remnants of this book for days. I’m so terribly afraid of messing up this review. It can’t be too sentimental, but it has to convey some sort of emotion; it can’t be overly dramatic, and yet it has to explain how The Things They…

You’re sitting at a table in a book store café, reading something—Jane Eyre? Gone With The Wind? Maybe you’re drinking coffee. Maybe you have a gun tucked into your purse and you’re planning to rob the place, hold all the staff at gunpoint, and make off with a stack of Jane Austen novels—as soon as…

Jane Austen retellings are a dime a dozen. Seriously people, there are so many rewritten versions of anything that she’s written it’s almost ridiculous. And of course, the infamous Pride and Prejudice with the infamous Mr. Darcy, the dream man of every nitwit female out there. So naturally in any Pride and Prejudice retelling, it…